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SIGMA XI

QUARTERLY

Vol. VI

JUNE, 1918

No. 2

CONTENTS

Editorials 29

Executive Committee Meeting 32

Chapter Reports : Missouri ; Chicago ; Syracuse ; Illinois ;

Worcester 38

OFFICERS OF SIGMA XI

President Julius Stieglitz

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Secretary Henry B. Ward

University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

Treasurer George B. Pegram

Columbia University, New York City

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Carl H Eigenmann Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind,

Term expires January, 1910,

Clarence E. McClung University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.

Term expires January, 1920

F. E. Kester University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Term expires January, 1921

F. K. Richsmyer Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.

Term expires January, 1922

Edward Ellery Union College, Schenectady, N. Y.

Term expires January, 1923

Published by the Society of the Sigma Xi

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION 50 CENTS SINGLE NUMBER 15 CENTS

Changes of address should be communicated only to chapter secretaries
Subscriptions and manuscripts should be sent to the general secretary, Henry B.
Ward, Urbana, Illinois

Entered as second-class matter July 21, 1912, at the postofflce at Menasha, Wis,, under
Act of August 24, 1912

Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of Octobe
3. 1917, authorized, July 5, 1918